First things first. Laura and Richard now have a beautiful baby girl Castelino-Bouvier. Born on April 23 at 9.23 am.

Big whoop, lots of hugs and kisses, flowers, champagne and deep chocolate cake in order. Feels like yesterday that Laura and I giggled and angsted our way through college, treated each other for first jobs, chatted for hours over chai and got all excited about her wedding. And now, there's the little baby, who I cannot wait to see.

Blank Noise's first Mumbai intervention went off wonderfull well. It was lovely to see such energy and conviction on Carter Road last Saturday evening.